pictures of people who seem to have figured out how to live

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kim, niki, fidel, idi, mao, nico, jolly fellows all
thx for link gr8080

drash, Sunday, 16 August 2015 11:46 (ten years ago)

Khrushchev, meanwhile, stood uncomfortably in the children’s end of the pool until Mao, with more than a touch of malice, suggested that he join him in the deeper water.

A flotation device was suddenly produced—Lorenz Lüthi describes it as a “life belt,” while Henry Kissinger prefers “water wings.” Either way, the result was scarcely dignified. Mao, says Lüthi, covered his head with “a handkerchief with knots at all the corners” and swept up and down the pool while Khrushchev struggled to stay afloat. After considerable exertion, the Soviet leader was able to get moving, “paddling like a dog” in a desperate attempt to keep up. “It was an unforgettable picture,” said his aide Oleg Troyanovskii, “the appearance of two well-fed leaders in swimming trunks, discussing questions of great policy under splashes of water.”

Mao, Taubman relates, “watched Khrushchev’s clumsy efforts with obvious relish and then dived in the deep end and swam back and forth using several different strokes.” The chairman’s personal physician, Li Zhisui, believed that he was playing the role of emperor, “treating Khrushchev like a barbarian come to pay tribute.”

Khrushchev played the scene down in his memoirs, acknowledging that “of course we could not compete with him when it came to long distance swimming” and insisting that “most of the time we lay around like seals on warm sand or a rug and talked.” But he revealed his true feelings a few years later in a speech to an audience of artists and writers:

“He’s a prizewinning swimmer, and I’m a miner. Between us, I basically flop around when I swim; I’m not very good at it. But he swims around, showing off, all the while expounding his political views…. It was Mao’s way of putting himself in an advantageous position.”

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/khrushchev-in-water-wings-on-mao-humiliation-and-the-sino-soviet-split-80852370/

drash, Sunday, 16 August 2015 11:48 (ten years ago)

http://public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/yangtze.jpg

drash, Sunday, 16 August 2015 11:50 (ten years ago)

when Mao turned up at the talks of August 3 dressed in a bathrobe and slippers, Khrushchev immediately suspected trouble

j., Sunday, 16 August 2015 13:58 (ten years ago)

Of all the rabbit holes you guys could've found...

http://i.imgur.com/MATz9f9.jpg

pplains, Sunday, 16 August 2015 16:23 (ten years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/X5dJtpS.jpg

pplains, Sunday, 16 August 2015 16:23 (ten years ago)

lol those are great
brezhnev always looks like he's having a good time

drash, Sunday, 16 August 2015 17:09 (ten years ago)

http://vasi.net/uploads/podbor/v12456/4.jpg
yeltsin

drash, Sunday, 16 August 2015 17:14 (ten years ago)

https://aitchbar.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/putin_swimming.jpeg

drash, Sunday, 16 August 2015 17:16 (ten years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://31.media.tumblr.com/2f5de8955b702b1917b0c83f6781f882/tumblr_nq2hv81qc01rdfgw4o1_r1_500.gif

painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Sunday, 6 September 2015 15:30 (ten years ago)

videos of people who seem to have figured out how to live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-q044jp3sM

soref, Sunday, 6 September 2015 21:06 (ten years ago)

love that gif
mr. music... less so

Nhex, Monday, 7 September 2015 22:48 (ten years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/lK9l7ck.jpg

Aleix Salmonid (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 11:38 (ten years ago)

http://trainfanatics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/pahsa.jpg

xelab, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 14:16 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPmMeC_WUAARxGi.jpg

mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 17:45 (ten years ago)

If that qualifies:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5f/37/b3/5f37b3e47a7b4921f32291f0eb913df5.jpg

statisticians the world over rejoice (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 17:50 (ten years ago)

Dude looks like an alternate universe Jared Leto

jimmy falloff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 3 October 2015 22:38 (ten years ago)

Classic Gillespie.

pplains, Saturday, 3 October 2015 23:08 (ten years ago)

http://s.mlkshk.com/r/16134

Dan I., Sunday, 4 October 2015 05:33 (ten years ago)

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/08/340x_custom_1281293098600_super_breakout_cover.jpg

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 October 2015 19:36 (ten years ago)

what is this some kind of sci-fi jab at gay pride?

gate gate paragate parasamgate (Sanpaku), Friday, 9 October 2015 19:47 (ten years ago)

http://www.reminiscethis.co.uk/boys62_4.jpg

soref, Monday, 12 October 2015 14:50 (ten years ago)

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Nhex, Monday, 12 October 2015 14:55 (ten years ago)

yes

strictly dream-bait fit for moon-gazing (soref), Monday, 12 October 2015 14:56 (ten years ago)

three months pass...

just look for the girl whose arm shoots glitter on that link

ulysses, Thursday, 28 January 2016 15:43 (ten years ago)

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/12654418_499928826865160_7120454399286840725_n.jpg?oh=7e20741a8b04aa2386a22122c150c5a0&oe=5736CE7C

Skaciety (pronounced the way you'd pronounce society) (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 08:47 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

video n all, but still
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL6E4y7DTn4

Spottie, Monday, 22 February 2016 18:16 (ten years ago)

Obama: You gotta slow down! (thinking... omg, can't have here die right here from overexcitement)

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 22 February 2016 18:23 (ten years ago)

four weeks pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ce0vub3UAAAFI0C.jpg

Better Pau Gasol (Spottie), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 21:26 (ten years ago)

lol @ both treeship's & spottie's

marcos, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 21:32 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

every time i go to login to paypal *sigh*

https://www.paypalobjects.com/digitalassets/c/website/marketing/na/us/home/hero-cookied-credit.jpg

lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 15 April 2016 23:17 (ten years ago)

the problem is there's a child and dog in that picture

Nhex, Saturday, 16 April 2016 01:27 (ten years ago)

looks humid outside

no 72" flat-screen showing the Big Game

mookieproof, Saturday, 16 April 2016 01:37 (ten years ago)

http://openmyeyeslord.net/sapdogloverssay.htm

pplains, Saturday, 16 April 2016 03:18 (ten years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/kvjRP7y.jpg

сверх (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 April 2016 22:00 (ten years ago)

three of those people should probably be publicly hanged, so no

Οὖτις, Friday, 22 April 2016 22:03 (ten years ago)

Uh.....

Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, 22 April 2016 22:10 (ten years ago)

guess which three!

Οὖτις, Friday, 22 April 2016 22:12 (ten years ago)

is there a non-gross answer?

Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, 22 April 2016 22:15 (ten years ago)

*tugs forelock*

Οὖτις, Friday, 22 April 2016 22:15 (ten years ago)

obv that little spoilt twat on the Ewardian looking rocking horse first, then Bama :p

calzino, Friday, 22 April 2016 22:17 (ten years ago)

what about the bundle of twigs leaning against the table

Οὖτις, Friday, 22 April 2016 22:20 (ten years ago)


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